“Stories are always braided together - one affecting the other.”

“Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”

“that each affects the other and tho other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”

“And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”

“Bina and Landsman were twisted together, a braided pair of chromosomes with a mystery flaw. And now? Now each of them pretends not to see the other and looks away.Landsman looks away.”

“And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living. ”